A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

For the most part, the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased, because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, ...

It’s no news that the Internet, which currently runs on internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), has a limited number of IP addresses available, and has already fallen short to suffice the needs of ...

The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. On Monday, ICANN, the ...

In hindsight, we reached peak IPv4 two years ago. The good news is that IPv6 is doing very well—but not nearly well enough. Is the IPv6 glass 1 percent full or 99 percent empty? “Hi, I’d like to sign ...